[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 26 (Thursday, February 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H1471-H1472]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        INTRODUCTION OF H.R. 862

  (Mr. DORNAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I introduced a piece of legislation 
yesterday, H.R. 862, that is really going to help Bill Clinton. Our 
distinguished colleague and leader of the minority, the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Fazio], is here. He may appreciate this. This may be a 
first, Mr. Speaker.
  The show ``Nightline'' last night showed a very nice man and probably 
a very good doctor, Dr. Henry Foster, trying to get himself out of the 
position he described of the inside-the-beltway climate of speaking 
before really researching something, and he tells us now that he has 
performed 89 abortions, not the 700, but it still has given him such a 
truthfulness problem that here is how we solve the problem:
  We roll the job back into Health and Human Services. The Assistant 
Secretary of Health, prior to President Ronald Reagan, always wore both 
hats. 
[[Page H1472]] It has become not a bully pulpit, but a pulpit of 
political correctness. He is on a hot seat. If President Clinton 
withdraws this nomination, then he is in trouble, and how is anybody 
going to get through the nomination process after this?
  Put it back where it belongs, in the Assistant Secretary of Health. 
Solves problems for everybody.


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